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Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

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I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

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Hence, it's said an elegant geisha walked 'as slowly as an ox cart'.

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Read:[PHOTOS] Irish ambassador rides ox cart to launch school in Makueni

How Irish intervention saved Makueni pupils from long trek to school

Cassia and Marcus flee a variety of perils by foot, boat, horse and ox cart, in a plot that has as many twists and turns as Londonium's busy streets.

Landman, Tanya: Beyond the Wall

Such is the islanders' fondness for their roof and four walls, some literally move them by ox cart - or even over water by raft - when settling in a new location.

BEAUTIFUL & BIZARRE; tr avel report CHILE STEEPED IN FOLKLORE AND AWASH WITH MAGICAL CHARACTERS, CHILE'S CHILOE ISLANDS ARE PURE STORYBOOK MATERIAL. SARAH MARSHALL FINDS A REALITY FAR MORE FASCINATING THAN FICTION

An accordionist Such is the islanders' fondness for their roof and four walls, some literally move them by ox cart - or even over water by raft - when settling in a new location.

Bright, beautiful and bizarre; Steeped in folklore and awash with magical characters, Chile's Chiloe Islands are pure storybook material. / SARAH MARSHALL finds a reality far more fascinating than fiction

Travel by ox cart was slow, tedious, and often dangerous (Figure 4).

RESURRECTION OF LOWER VALLEY SCHOOL

Rene Marques's The Ox Cart (La Carreta), about a family migrating from Puerto Rico to NYC, opens at the Greenwich Mews Theatre in Manhattan with Miriam Colon and Raul Julia.

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Yesterday the ox cart, Today the bullet train, Tomorrow the marvel we can't yet imagine, Yet even the ox cart was moving toward it, Surely and patiently into the future.

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Borrow a bicycle to explore the cinnamon and vanilla plantations, or travel by ox cart along the coast -- a traditional form of transport which remains from the islands early days.

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For example, John Ireland, the governor of Texas from 1883-87, went by Ox Cart John to signal his opposition to railroad interests.